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Daily Mail/Transworld First Novel Competition 2008

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Closing date: 
2 July 2008
Entry: 
Open to UK and Irish residents over 16 only
Prize: 
Publishing contract with Transworld Publishers, a division of Random House UK, and an advance of £30,000

Daily Mail/Transworld First Novel Competition

The Daily Mail and Transworld have joined forces again for the 2nd annual First Novel Competition. Get your first novel published in a deal worth at least £30,000.

Closing date 2 July 2008

Open to UK and Irish residents over 16 only

The Publisher will offer the winning entrant a publishing contract with Transworld Publishers, a division of The Random House Group Limited, and an advance in the sum of £30,000 (Prize). The Publishers will publish the winning work in the spring of 2009.

Entrants must submit a complete work in the English language of not less than 80,000 words and no more than 150,000 words and a synopsis of the work in the English language of no more than 600 words.

Eligibility is restricted to original, previously unpublished works of fiction on any subject or genre, including but not limited to romance, crime, science fiction, adventure, and thriller.

For a printed copy of the rules send a stamped addressed envelope to Daily Mail First Novel competition, Transworld Publishers, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA or go to http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/books/article-443521/Get-novel-publis...

Closing date: 
2 July 2008
Entry: 
Open to UK and Irish residents over 16 only
Prize: 
Publishing contract with Transworld Publishers, a division of Random House UK, and an advance of £30,000